3-070-635 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Colonel B. M. Deane, killed in the Transvaal War, 1881. Engraving from a photograph by Messrs. Hills and Saunders. 'Colonel Bonar Millett Deane, late of the 19th Foot, Deputy-Adjutant and Quartermaster-General at the Cape of Good Hope, was killed in the attack on Lang's Neck Pass, in the Transvaal. He was in command of the advance column of Sir George Colley's force, consisting of the 3rd Battalion 60th Rifles and two companies of the 58th Foot...Colonel Deane became Major of the 22nd in 1863, but was transferred to the 18th (Royal Irish) in 1864, and to the 19th Foot in 1865. He served on the Indian Staff as Assistant-Quartermaster-General at head-quarters, Madras, from 1866 to 1871...From 1872 to 1875 he was military secretary to Sir Philip Wodehouse, Governor of Bombay. He rejoined his regiment, the 19th Foot, as Regimental Lieutenant-Colonel, in 1875. He continued in command of the first battalion of the 19th at Aldershott...until placed on half pay in 1879, having attained the brevet rank of Colonel. In the same year he was appointed extra Inspector under the Local Government Board in Ireland during the distress of last winter. This post he resigned last year, in order to undertake the staff duties at the Cape of Good Hope'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.